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Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra

Keynote Speaker: Professor of Educational Technology; Leading Expert on Global Education Around Peer to Peer

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Sugata Mitra Biography

Educational researcher Dr. Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if theyre motivated by curiosity and peer interest. In 1999, Mitra and his colleagues dug a hole in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed an Internet-connected PC, and left it there (with a hidden camera filming the area). What they saw was kids from the slum playing around with the computer and in the process learning how to use it and how to go online, and then teaching each other.

The "Hole in the Wall" project demonstrates that, even in the absence of any direct input from a teacher, an environment that stimulates curiosity can cause learning through self-instruction and peer-shared knowledge. Mitra, who's now a professor of educational technology at Newcastle University (UK), calls it "minimally invasive education." At TED2013, Sugata Mitra made a bold TED Prize wish: Help me build a place where children can explore and learn on their own -- and teach one another -- using resouces from the worldwide cloud.

"Education-as-usual assumes that kids are empty vessels who need to be sat down in a room and filled with curricular content. Dr. Mitra's experiments prove that wrong."

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Sugata Mitra Speaking Topics

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children

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Sugata Mitra Videos

EducationWorld Expert Keynotes - Sugata Mitra - YouTube
Bett 2016 - Professor Sugata Mitra - YouTube
Let Learning Happen - Sugata Mitra at European Zeitgeist 2011

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Sugata Mitra is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Technology, Innovation, Business, Education, Culture and Leadership.

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Sugata Mitra generally travels from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.

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Sugata Mitra is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Technology, Innovation and Business. The estimated speaking fee range to book Sugata Mitra for live events is $20,000 - $30,000. Please contact us for virtual event fees. Sugata Mitra generally travels from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Adam Braun, Daphne Koller and Jimmy Wales. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Sugata Mitra for an upcoming event.

Sugata Mitra Speaking Topics

  • companies

    people information phones technology work internet android computing audience

  • portugal

    india africa mobile forest technology regulation people understanding rural

  • children

    people schools countries education work america folk united state

  • content

    news responsibility human rights people monetary corporate governance arab

  • life

    children brain psychology national understanding ideas future work science

Sugata Mitra Videos

EducationWorld Expert Keynotes - Sugata Mitra - YouTube
Bett 2016 - Professor Sugata Mitra - YouTube
Let Learning Happen - Sugata Mitra at European Zeitgeist 2011
Highlights: Let Learning Happen - Sugata Mitra at European Zeitgeist 2011
Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

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